Some warm, rainy night when you’re driving along Route 321 in Camillus you might notice a woman and her young children with flashlights and headlamps on, walking the grounds at the Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery.
Don’t worry, they’ve got permission from hatchery officials.
It’s Sara Holden and her kids looking for night crawlers.
The Holdens live right next door to the hatchery. Gregory Holden is a contractor and Sara is a stay-at-home mom who spent 10 years in the service (four in the Air Force, six as a reservist for the Air National Guard). While in the Air Force, she was deployed to Saudi Arabia. While in the Guard, she spent time in Qatar (a small country on the western side of Saudi Arabia).
“I needed a break,” she said, holding Jacqueline, her 2-year-old daughter. The other two children are Hannah, 10, and Isaiah, 6.
Wednesday, I stopped by the Holdens’ house, attracted by the home-made “WORMS” sign out front. Out back is a shed housing a small flock of chickens and a field where sunflowers have been planted - two other prospective businesses the enterprising mom is considering.
Sara Holden, 31, said when she was a little girl she and her dad picked night crawlers for fishing bait. She got her children going this spring on the night crawler scene and put up the “WORMS” sign. She sells them for $2 a dozen.
“The kids are all excited,” she said, adding profits are going into their “summer money” fund. “We sold five dozen this past Memorial Day weekend.”
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